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Speaker 1 (00:01):
BIA News this hour. I'm Terry McCready coming up. Military
deployment of troops in La is paused temporarily. Illinois governor
is defending the state's immigration policies. Chicago's mayor is urging
residents to stand strong. But first, here's BIA News now.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Like LA Mayor Karen Bass's blasting Homeland Security Secretary Christinaum
after Secretary Alex Padilla was handcuffed during a press briefing.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I served it the secretary for probably about ten years
in Congress, and Madam's secretary, I do not recognize you anymore.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Beast question how police didn't recognize the senator and pushed
back on Noam's claim that La is a war zone.
A black Mariland mother who claimed her three year old
daughter was kidnapped is now charged with the child's murder.
Darien Randall was arrested in Delaware, and her boyfriend, Cederic
Britain is charged as an accessory for not reporting the
death of Nola Dinkins. And the Grammys are adding a
new category in twenty twenty six after Beyonce's win for

(00:53):
Best Country Album, The Best Traditional Country Album will honor
artists rooted in classic country Sounds. The existing Best Country
Album category will be renamed Best Contemporary Country Album. GIPI
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Speaker 1 (01:06):
Here's Terry McCreadie, a federal judge, tapping the brakes at
least for now, when it comes to the Trump administration's
deployment of military troops in Los Angeles. California Governor Gavin
Newsham said he was hopeful the ruling would be followed asap.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I'm very hopeful this order puts that in perspective, and
hopefully Donald Trump will immediately back down.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
The courts have ruled on the Guard.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
They will be back under my command, and he'll be relieved.
The judge, writing the federal government did not have the
authority to nationalize California's National Guard. The White House appealing
Los Angeles' mayor. Black Mayor Karen Bass has been railing
against the administration's policies.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
They are talking about spending over one hundred million dollars
with this deployment, which is why I say that I
feel like we've all been in Los Angeles a part
of a grand experiment to see what happens when the
federal government decides they want to row on a state,
a roll up on a city, and take over.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
California's attorney general challenging the deployment ordered by President Trump.
Up to four thousand National Guard troops and seven hundred
marines were called up after anti ICE protests were sparked.
Illinois Democratic Governor dB Pritzker is defending Illinois immigration policies.
He spoke yesterday before the US House Oversight Committee.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Illinois follows the law, but let me be clear, we
expect the federal government to follow the law too. We
will not participate in abuses of power. We will not
violate court orders, We will not ignore the constitution.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Pritzker clashing with Republican members of Congress, including Texas Representative
Brandon Gill, who repeatedly asked the governor whether he thought
that biological men should use women's bathrooms. The governor also
vowed to stand in the way of White House borders,
our Tom Hoeman, who has claimed that elected officials would
be arrested if they impede ICE. Afterwards, the governor blasted

(02:55):
the GOP, calling the hearing a demonstration of just how
bad this republic can control Congress really is. Pritzker's remarks
meanwhile aligning with those of Chicago's black mayor Brandon Johnson,
who is calling on residents to resist the Trump administration's
immigration enforcement. The mayor says it's a necessary fight, adding
that descent matters in this moment.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
I am calling on all of Chicago to resist in
this moment because whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today,
another group will be next home.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
In meanwhile is also warning of stepped up workplace immigration enforcement.
United Nations agencies are warning of immigrant famine in South Sudan,
in a region mired in conflict, Residents in most of
the Upper Nile State are now facing emergency levels of hunger.
That word from the World Food Program, the UN Children's Fund,
and the Food in Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

(03:50):
Some thirty two thousand people are food and secure in
conditions described as catastrophic, although other parts of South Sudan
are seeing improvements. Roughly sixty percent of the East African
countries eleven million people are on the brink of starvation.
Famine was declared in parts of South Sudan in twenty seventeen.
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(04:12):
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